It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. THE Centurion tank, launched in 1945, is celebrating its 80th anniversary. The Centurion, a major engineering success for the British Army ...

“And then there was a guy at Ballarat who had a couple of tanks as well, and it goes on.” An Australian 1955 Centurion tank fully restored by Peter Cordell and Lottie Hasselt-Grant ...

In 1967, Israel used the American M48 and British Centurion tanks to storm the Sinai Peninsula in a pre-emptive strike, which led to the end of the Six-Day War. However, this didn't come without ...

The Brits lost 14 tanks in only 15 minutes, according to Beaches of Normandy Tours. This and other incidents led the British army to outfit, as soon as 1945, new Centurion tanks with "boiling ...

The origin story of the Centurion – one of Britain's most important tanks and perhaps one of the most influential tank designs ever– goes all the way back to the Second World War.

Tanks of 1973 The tanks that Israel used in 1973 would not have been out of place in 1943. The British-made Centurion was designed during World War II, while the US-made M48 Patton went into ...

As an unseasonably cool easterly wind from the Syrian plateau whipped around him, Roni Mansur clambered up the back of his old tank. Decades ago, manning the Centurion tank, or Sho’t in IDF parl ...

Kurtis Lowden, who runs the museum with his sister Caitlyn and director Rob Lowden, recalled the Vietnam era Centurion tank that started it all. “After we bought the first one, that whole scene ...